Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the se...

:: INTRODUZIONE DI SERGIO BONELLI :::: VOLUME ILLUSTRATO ::La conquista dei vasti territori del Far West, descritta attraverso i personaggi e gli eventi più significativi. La storia del trasferimento di intere comunità verso quella “terra di confine” nella quale ogni legame con la tradizione si spezzava, liberando i pionieri dai complessi vincoli sociali della vita cittadina. Con l’aumento della popolazione d...

New York Times BestsellerThe record-holding two-time NBA champion and recently inducted hall-of-famer reflects on his work ethic, his on-the-court friendships and rivalries, the great teams he's played for, and what it takes to have a long and successful career in this thoughtful, in-depth memoir.Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and entered the record books as the original king of the three-point s...

Clarence Ray Allen wasn't just another name on death row—he was a ruthless orchestrator of murder, a man who wielded power even from behind prison walls. Convicted of ordering the brutal execution of three young people while already serving a life sentence, Allen's case stands as one of the most chilling examples of crime, power, and justice in modern American history.This gripping true crime book unravels Allen's dark past, from his rise as a feared criminal to his ultimate downfa...

Four fanciful stories of humanity's future that examine how our imperfect human nature might influence the use of genetic manipulation and artificial intelligence in shaping tomorrow's society:An extinct alien race uses genetic manipulation and artificial intelligence to bring their knowledge to Earth and give us a utopian future.Artificial intelligence runs the world and provides for humanity's every need. What do people do with their time when partying, drugs, tattoos and...

Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a story of Caribbean music in the diaspora through the eyes and ears of a pioneering soca arranger. A fascinating collaboration between Frankie McIntosh and music scholar Ray Allen, this cowritten memoir places the music arranger at th...

The record-holding two-time National Basketball Association champion reflects on his work ethic, his on-the-court friendships and rivalries, the great teams he's played for, and what it takes to have a long and successful career in this thoughtful, in-depth memoir.Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and entered the record books as the original king of the three-point shot. Known as one of the hardest-working ...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams to the controversial revolutionaries of the word Vladimir Nabokov and Allen Ginsberg to the kings of science fiction and horror Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury and Chuck Palahniuk, these liter...

Almost forty years ago, a literary movement forever changed the landscape of the horror industry. Splatterlands is a collection of personal, intelligent and subversive horror with a point. This illustrated volume of dark fiction honors the truly revolutionary efforts of some of the most brilliant writers of all time with an all-new collection of visceral, disturbing and thought-provoking work from a diverse group of modern minds.Exploring concepts that include serial murde...

This is a Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook. Here You will find the definitive Guide To Keep Your Dog Healthy, Happy and ActiveKeeping your dog healthy is really just paying attention most of the time. If your dog runs free, there is more of a chance of your pet getting into some sort of difficulty because of the added exposure to more potential harm. If you keep your dog in the house or in a fenced yard, there is a better chance of controlling his or her environment.The...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 29 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Leigh Brackett, Margaret...